Who is Andy Burnham, the ‘Manchester messiah’?

Andy Burnham's arrival at London Euston, on the authentically late-running 10:43am Avanti West Coast service, reminded some of Barack Obama's “Hope express” from Chicago to Washington in 2008 and others of the secret “sealed train” carrying Vladimir Lenin to St Petersburg in 1918.As “Comrade Burnham” hurtled south, tracked by helicopters, he made a symbolic reunion with his Westminster past: changing out of his trademark black T-shirt into a suit. He escaped t